{"nrhp_refnum":"80002723","name":"Stuyvesant Square Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Nathan D. Perleman Pl., 3rd Ave., E. 18th and E. 15th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.73398385400003,"lon":-73.98468328899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district on Manhattan's lower east side, New York City, made up of almost 50 row houses, a church, a seminary and several apartment and commercial buildings around the southern and western edges of Stuyvesant Square Park. Most buildings date from the late nineteenth century, after the park was created in 1836.","why_significant":"The district keeps the scale and feel of a fine 19th-century residential neighborhood focused on a small park. Its buildings show a range of mid- to late-19th-century styles, including Greek Revival, Italianate, Romanesque Revival and some of the few remaining Anglo-Italianate houses in New York City. It recalls the pre-Civil War period when the area around 14th Street was a fashionable district of brownstone homes and churches.","narrative":"Stuyvesant Square Historic District covers the blocks around the southern and western sides of Stuyvesant Square Park on Manhattan's lower east side. It contains almost 50 row houses, a church, a seminary and several apartment and commercial buildings, most built in the late nineteenth century after the park was laid out in 1836. The row houses are mainly Greek Revival and Italianate, built by architect-builders as speculative housing; one, at 245 East 17th Street, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in 1883. On the west side of the park stand St. George's Church, an early Romanesque Revival building of brown sandstone, and the Friends Meeting House and Seminary of 1860-61, which echo earlier Federal and Greek Revival styles. Many houses have been altered, yet the area still reads as a low-scaled residential neighborhood around a small square. Its significance lies in preserving the character of a once-fashionable pre-Civil War district that commercial development erased elsewhere downtown. The park's fence and fountains survive from its original plan.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Richard Morris Hunt (245 East 17th Street, 1883); Charles Bunting (builder, Friends Meeting House and Seminary); Chapman, Evans and Delahanty (1963-65 intrusion)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Anglo-Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and altered; many row houses have lost stoops and details, and two intrusions are noted.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.28707-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002723.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319971","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/stuyvesant-square-historic-district-80002723/"}